Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers — Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. — “I just think it's weird …

Twitter Exploit Still Works — Yesterday I posted an article about a serious vulnerability I found in Twitter. As it was a bit on the geeky side, it may well have gone over a few people's heads, so I thought I'd try to explain it in a bit more detail. Incidentally I don't think Twitter …

Twitter's Golden Ratio (That No One Likes To Talk About) — If you're new to Twitter, life is easy. A notification comes in that someone is following you, and you probably follow them back. After all, you're going to want some tweets in your stream. After a couple dozen of those …

Film Fresh to offer Hollywood movies in DivX — Online movie retailer Film Fresh announced today the availability of movies from four Hollywood studios in the DivX format, marking the latest step forward for the downloadable movie business. DivX had previously announced licensing agreements …

Microsoft “destroyed development culture” at FASA - Weisman — FASA Interactive founder Jordan Weisman has spoken out about Microsoft's acquisition of his highly-regarded studio, saying that the corporation “destroyed” its development culture and came close to doing the same with Halo developer Bungie.

Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incident — Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company's Web site. — In a photo on its U.S. Web site">photo on the company's U.S. Web site, three businesspeople—one black …

Nokia bets on Linux in iPhone battle: sources — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will try again to tackle Apple Inc's iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters. — Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running …

Facebook Makes a Few Design Tweaks — This evening, Facebook made a couple design tweaks designed to make the site more consistent. While none of the changes affect any core Facebook features, many users will likely notice the subtle updates. — 1. Feedback on ads has been changed from “Thumbs up/Thumbs down” to “Like/X.”

Microsoft Sings a New Zune — The MP3 player also-ran is being repositioned as a service for delivering content to game consoles, cell phones—even PCs — Hindered by a failure to sell large numbers of digital music players, Microsoft is singing a new Zune.

Mininova Ordered to Remove All ‘Infringing’ Torrents — Mininova were sued this spring by BREIN, an outfit which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations. — Today, the judge ruled that the world's largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean …

Texting While Driving: Are You an Offender? — For the growing number of tech companies developing safety measures for texting while driving, the reasons are often personal. — Zoomsafer — Matt Howard, a co-founder of Reston, Va.-based Zoomsafer, began work on the service after nearly hitting …

Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard — Apple's commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free (.mov) but the company isn't taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. — Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard feature to scan software downloads for malware …

‘Arrandale’ chip will be an Intel laptop first — Intel's upcoming “Arrandale” will be the first highly integrated chip of its kind from Intel and is expected to run the gamut of laptop designs, from ultrathin to mainstream. — Due by the fourth quarter, it will be the first Intel product …

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